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From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
Subject: Re: org-contacts or bbdb?
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pmlists@free.fr (Peter Münster) writes:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to manage my contacts, so that I can
> - easily search them
> - add new email addresses from gnus (summary buffer)
> - complete email addresses in gnus (message buffer and prompts in
>   mini-buffer)
> - and perhaps more in the future
>
> Could you guide me please, what to choose, org-contacts or bbdb?
> I don't see the advantages of the one or of the other...
> TIA for any hints!

I used org-contacts but now use bbdb3.  I think bbdb does it all and
it's quite nice.

I don't remember why I dropped Org-contant, but I think I found it hard
to manage my contacts in the way I would ideally like to with it.

Cheers,
Rasmus

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